Individualized Nursing Care and Frailty Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

SELDA MERT

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Patient-centered Care; Frail Patient; Clinical Outcomes; Cardiac Surgical Procedures (Postoperative Population)

Treatments: Other: Experimental

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07471945

Decision Number: 33

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a randomized controlled trial aiming to compare targeted individualized nursing care with standard care in frail elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

The hypotheses of the study are:

H1: Targeted individualized nursing care has an effect on the frailty level of frail elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

H2: Targeted individualized nursing care affects the factors influencing frailty in frail elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Enrollment: 75 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 65 years and older
• Scheduled for elective surgery
• Edmonton Frail Scale score ≥ 7
• Able to speak Turkish and communicate effectively
• Can be transferred from the postoperative intensive care unit to the ward
• Patients who agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with neurological or psychological disorders
• Patients who cannot be transferred from the postoperative intensive care unit to the ward
• Emergency and unplanned cases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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75 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard nursing care was provided to patients in this group

Targeted Individualized Nursing Care Group

Experimental group

Description:

An individualized nursing intervention targeting risk factors associated with frailty was planned for patients in this group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental